θεμέλιον
foundation
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where θεμέλιον appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 37 total occurrences). Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Samuel 22:8 θεμέλιον And the earth was troubled and quaked, and the foundations of heaven were confounded and torn asunder, because the Lord was angry with them.
- 1 Kings 7:46 θεμέλιον
- 2 Kings 16:18 θεμέλιον And he made a base for the throne in the house of the Lord, and he turned the king's entrance without in the house of the Lord because of the king of the Assyrians.
- Job 9:6 θεμέλιον Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, and its pillars totter.
- Psalms 17:8 θεμέλιον There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.
- Proverbs 8:29 θεμέλιον decree. and when he strengthened the foundations of the earth:
- Isaiah 13:5 θεμέλιον to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and his warriors are coming to destroy all the world.
- Jeremiah 6:5 θεμέλιον Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.
- Lamentations 4:11 θεμέλιον CHAPH. The Lord has accomplished his wrath; he has poured out fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Sion, and it has devoured her foundations.
- Ezekiel 13:14 θεμέλιον And I will break down the wall which you⌃ have plastered, and it shall fall; and I will lay it on the ground, and its foundations shall be revealed, and it shall fall; and you⌃ shall be consumed with rebukes: and you⌃ shall know that I am the Lord.
- Hosea 8:14 θεμέλιον And Israel has forgotten him that made him, and they have built fanes, and Juda has multiplied walled cities: but I will send fire on his cities, and it shall devour their foundations.
- Amos 1:4 θεμέλιον And I will send a fire on the house of Azael, and it shall devour the foundations of the son of Ader.
- Micah 1:6 θεμέλιον Therefore I will make Samaria as a store-house of the fruits of the field, and as a planting of a vineyard: and I will utterly demolish her stones, and I will expose her foundations.
- Nahum 1:10 θεμέλιον For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.
About this word
About this word
θεμέλιον (themélion), “foundation,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 37 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →